Australia prays as floods keep spreading

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Much of Brisbane resembles a gigantic rubbish tip after last weeks floodsMARK RALSTON

Anne BarrowcloughSydney

Published at 12:00AM, January 17 2011

Australians prayed for the victims of the devastating floods in scores of
church services yesterday as emergency services found another body, bringing
the death toll of last week’s inland tsunami to 17.

Three weeks of flooding across Queensland has left an area the size of France
and Germany combined under water, and caused a total of 28 deaths, 17 of
them from the flash flood that hit the Lockyer Valley west of Queensland
last week.

In the tiny community of Grantham, the “Ground Zero” of the flood from where
at least half the victims came, 70 per cent of the